Reenforced concrete floor and floor blocks



April-3, 1934. c 1,953,101

REENFORCED CONCRETE FLOOR AND FLOOR BLOCKS Filed July 20, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR linen) Bacqhz'wlu'a,

A ril 3, 1934. v. BOCCHICCHIO 1,953,101

REENFORCED CONCRETE FLOOR AND FLOOR BLOCKS Filed July 20, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Patented Apr. 3, 1934 REENFORCED CONCRETE FLOOR AND FLOOR BLOCKS Vincent Bocchicchio, Bridgeport,=0onn., assignor of twelveper cent to Harry M. Cassell, twelve per cent to Michael Lanzetta, and twelve per cent to James Malvone, all of Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application July 20, 1932, Serial No. 623,478

4 Claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, efficient, economical, and durable set of blocks of the kind and character in question, which are adapted to be laid in place without falsewori; or supports of any kind other than the beams of an ordinary steel frame building, and thereafter to be tied in position and form boards put parallel to the beams. Concrete is then poured so as to combine the blocks and put the building in a condition for further construction incidental to such work.

This and other objects are accomplished by my invention, one embodiment of which is hereinafter more particularly set forth.

For a more particular description of my invention, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which Figure 1 shows a section of a floor in inverse plan view, the structure being ready for form boards;

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3--3 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a floor block embodying my invention;

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a filling block,

" together with beams to which it is attached;

Figure 6 is an inverse perspective view of a floor board; and

Figure 7 shows a filling block of a special nature, suitable for corners.

Throughout the various views of the drawings, similar reference characters designate similar parts.

As is well known, steel frame buildings are provided with longitudinal beams 1 and cross beams 2 which are mounted and secured together either by rivets or by welding in the conventional manner. It is also well known that it is com mon to support hollow tile or concrete or other suitable means by said beams, and that ordinari- 1y a filling is placed thereon according to the requirements of a building code, and thereafter a filling and finishing coat of cement which may form a floor of a building. The filling and floor are conventional and so require no description here and are not shown. The support for these forms the substance of the invention here described and claimed.

The support employs floor blocks 3 and filling blocks 4 and 5. These and their mountings will now be described. Each floor block is preferably made as shown in Figure 4, with a flat bottom 6, vertical'webs 7, and an arched top 8. The ends are provided with recesses 9 and key grooves 10. Each block in these grooves has a series of hooks 11 placed at desired locations suitable for a preliminary wiring as indicated in Figure 2, and the blocks also carry, near the bottom, suitable reenforcing wires or rods 12 which terminate in hooks 13. Through these hooks 11 and 13 are passed suitable tie wires 1i and 15, and about each cross beam 2 is wrapped a binding wire 16 which holds these tie wires in place. The tie wire 14 is nothing more than a U-wire which lies over the other wires, and has its vertical ends projecting through the hooks 11. The tie wires 15 are crisscrossed between the hooks 13 at opposite ends of adjacent floor blocks, and pass under the cross beams 2. The ends of these wires 15 are formed into hooks 17 so that they will be secure.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, each block has two longitudinal wires 12 near each side edge which run the length of the block.

Each of the filling blocks 4 is provided with a recess 18 and about this recess are grooved keyways 19 at the bottom, and near these keyways and below the longitudinal beam level are hooks 20 through which tie wires 15 are passed, as above described, to hold these filler blocks in place.

Where a special corner is found, as shown in Figure '7, the filler block 5 has to be correspondingly shaped, as is obvious.

After the floor blocks have been positioned, as shown, form boards 21 are secured under the longitudinal and transverse beams by means of tie wires 22, the position of these boards being indicated by dotted lines in Figure 3. Once in place, all joints are poured with a suitable concrete mixture which is allowed to harden, and thereafter the blocks are fixed in place, the form boards may be removed, and the blocks will support the filling and flooring heretofore employed.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, the form boards 21 are provided with a suitable external re-enforcing 23 of angle iron which may be given any desired shape, although the preferred shape is that shown.

It will be observed that in the foregoing has been set forth a number of floor blocks and filler blocks which are recessed so as to fit securely on their supporting beams, and that these blocks are tied by tie wires passing through suitable hooks. The shape of the poured concrete can be readily understood from the moulds formed by the ends of the blocks and the interior of the recesses to the blocks, so that a further description of the ultimate form taken by the concrete is unnecessary.

While I have shown and described one embodiment of my invention, it is obvious that it is not restricted thereto, but that it is broad enough to cover all structures that come within the scope of the annexed claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a building, transverse and longitudinal beams, re-enforcing concrete floor blocks resting on said transverse beams, filler blocks carried by the longitudinal beams, hooks carried by all of said blocks, and tie wires passing through said hooks and over and under said beams.

2. In a fire proofed building construction, metal beams, floor blocks, keyways in the ends of the floor blocks, hooks in said keyways, tie wires in said hooks, some of said hooks being located below the beam level so that the tie Wires uniting them pass under the beams.

3. In a fireproofed floor construction, floor blocks having recessed ends, key grooves extending across the ends of the blocks and into the recesses therein, hooks located in the portions of the key grooves that lie within the recesses, a beam having a lower flange on which a recessed end of one of the floor blocks is supported with a portion of said floor block extending below the lower flange of the beam, hooks located in the end of the portion of the floor block which is disposed below the lower flange of the beam, a Wire straddling the beam and passing through the hooks in the recessed end of the floor block, and other wires passing around the beam and connecting the hooks in that portion of the block which is located below the beam.

4. In a fireproofed building construction, metal beams, floor blocks having their ends supported on the beams with portions of said blocks disposed below the lower face of the beams, hooks in the ends of the floor blocks, some of said hooks being located in those portions of the blocks which are disposed below the beams, and tie wires extending over the beams and passing through the hooks, some of said tie Wires passing beneath the beams LO connect the hooks located below the beams.

VINCENT BOCCHICCHIO. 

